SOAN 2112 Chapter : Comte
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main developer of organic paradigm: utilizing the assumptipons provided by naturalism, rationalism, social reform, and the positivist method, he developed a view of society concentrating on its systematic needs with functionally interrelated parts through the diviosn of labour. organicism the structure and function of a society can be analogized tot he structure and functioning of a living biological entity. Saw a deplorable state of anarchy, thought his social physics would bring order. Social and moral anarchy the result of intellectual anarchy (theological/methaphysical declined, positive not there yet) order and progress must be united, previously two different concepts with 2 different parties: retrogade party (order): destroying old order was bad, restore it, anarchists: destruction of old order is incomplete. 2 principles of order and progress must be studied as a whole. Sceintifric method requires society be studied as a whole and not divided.